Overcoming
Challenges
Embrace them
Fearless, with courage
Taste life’s treasured gifts
Blessings
Cherishing
Maturing
Home alone
World grows smaller
Embrace family and friends
Love
Trusting
Embers
Burning low
Embracing more hope
Blazing back to life
Rekindled
This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.
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each one is so good; well done, Richard!
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Jim, thanks for sharing your kind words. Sometimes what I write sticks with the reader.
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you are welcome, Richard.
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I like the first one best! Your Elfchen are always wonderful.
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Thanks Susan for sharing. All of us deal with life’s challenges. When we overcome, we receive a most treasured gift. Blessings and Merry Christmas!
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I like the one on challenges
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I agree that for me life will continue to present challenges. They breathe the Spirit deep into my soul.
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💚💙
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